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Is there a general theory of "compactification"?
In various branches of mathematics one finds diverse notions of compactification, used for diverse purposes. Certainly one does not expect all instances of "compactification" to be specializations of ...
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Reference Request for Drinfeld and Laumon Compactifications
Background
Let $X$ denote a smooth projective curve over $\mathbb{C}$ and let $G$ denote a semi-simple simply connected algebraic group over $\mathbb{C},$ which has associated flag variety $G/B.$
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Non-bimeromorphic compactifications
Let $X$ be a (smooth, non-compact) complex space. By a compactification of $X$ we mean a compact complex space $\overline X$ which contains a dense open subset biholomorphic to $X$ (we shall identify ...
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Compactifications of varieties with small complement
Let $X$ be a smooth variety over an algebraically closed field $k$. If it makes things easier, $X$ may be assumed to be quasi-projective. By Nagata (or quasi-projectivity) there exists a proper ...
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Wonderful compactification
Suppose $G$ is a semi-simple group of adjoint type over an algebraic closed field, and $X$ its wonderful compactification a la De Concini and Procesi. Let $P=MU$ be a parabolic subgroup in $G$, and ...
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Does a flat compactification always exist?
Let $\pi:X\to S$ be a separated flat morphism of finite type of Noetherian schemes. Does $\pi$ necessarily factor as an open immersion followed by a proper flat morphism? The analogue of this question ...
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Deligne-Mumford moduli spaces and compactification of symmetric matrices
The real Deligne-Mumford moduli space $\bar M_{0,n+1}(\mathbb R)$ of stable genus
zero curves with $n+1$ marked points is a compactification of the space of
configurations of $n$ distinct ordered ...
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Flatly compactifiable morphisms
Let $f:U \to S$ be a flat morphism. Let us say that $f$ is flatly compactifiable if there exists a proper morphism $\bar{f}:X \to S$ and a closed subscheme $Z \subset X$ such that
1) $U = X \...
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Compactification of the moduli space of Kähler manifolds with negative constant scalar curvatures
Moishezon compactification is very important in the study of the moduli space of varieties which admit canonical metrics. Moishezon showed that any non-projective Moishezon manifold $X$, after a ...
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Alterations of regular varieties
Let $X$ be a regular quasi-projective variety over a perfect field $k$. The existence of a "good compactification" of $X$, i.e. a regular projective variety $\bar{X}$ with an embedding $X\...
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Completion/Compactification of a Kähler metric on $\mathbb C^2$
Consider $\mathbb{C}^{2}$ equipped with the Kähler form
$$
\omega_{\mu}=\frac{i}{2} \partial \bar{\partial} \log \left(\left(1+|z|^{2}\right)^{\mu}+|w|^{2}\right),
$$
where $\mu$ is a positive real ...
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Intuition for the McGerty-Nevins compactification of quiver varieties
In Section 4 of the paper Kirwan surjectivity for quiver varieties (Inventiones Math. 2018) McGerty and Nevins define a compactification of the moduli space of representations
of the preprojective ...
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On toroidal compactifications of Hilbert Kuga-Sato varieties
Let $F$ be a totally real field of degree d. There are Hilbert modular varieties over $\mathbb{Q}$ that paramatrize abelian varieties of dimension d with an action of $\mathcal{O}_F$ the ring of ...
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Non-uniqueness of smooth compactification
Let $U$ be a smooth quasi-projective variety. Does there always exist a smooth compactification of $U$? If not always when can we have smooth compactification?
In particular, suppose $X$ is a ...
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Uniqueness of smooth compactification upto a smooth morphism
By a $k$-variety, we will mean a separated scheme of finte type over a field $k$. Let $k$ be of characteristic 0. Given a smooth quasi-projective $k$-variety $X$, there is a projective $k$-variety $\...
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Minimal Nagata-like compactification
Working over a field $k$, Nagata's compactification theorem implies that any separated scheme $X$ of finite type over $k$ admits a compactification (a dense open immersion $i \colon X\hookrightarrow\...
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Embedding of a smooth variety into a complete smooth variety.
Consider the following fact from algebraic geometry:
Any (complex) smooth algebraic variety can be embedded into a complete smooth variety as a locally closed set.
I know how to prove this fact ...
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Fulton-MacPherson compactifications (and wonderful compactifications) as relative Proj
Let $X$ be a (smooth complex projective) variety.
The Fulton-MacPherson compactification $X[n]$ is obtained from $X^n$ by blowing up the diagonals in a certain order. Is it possible to write down a (...
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Smooth toric compactification of $\mathbb C^n$
By a compactification $(X,Y)$ of $\mathbb C^n$, we mean an irreducible compact complex space $X$ and a closed analytic subspace $Y\subset X$ such that $X\setminus Y$ is biholomorphic to $\mathbb C^n$. ...
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Universal closure of schemes à la Nagata
Nagata compactification theorem is the following fundamental result:
Let $S$ be a qcqs scheme. Let $X$ be a separated $S$-scheme of finite type. Then there exists a proper $S$-scheme $\overline{X}$ ...
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Equivariant form of Nagata's compactification theorem?
Given a finite group $G$ acting on an algebraic variety $X$ (let's say over $\mathbb C$, if that helps), is there always a proper variety $\bar X$ with a $G$ action such that $X \to \bar X$ is a $G$-...
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Naive compactification of $\mathbb{C}^*$-fibrations
Let $\pi:X \to Y$ be a $\mathbb{C}^*$-fibration between complex manifolds in the sense that there exists a fixed integer $a$ such that for every $y \in Y$, $\pi^{-1}(y)=(\mathbb{C}^*)^a$. Suppose ...
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Locally toric resolutions of compactifications
Suppose $U$ is a smooth, open $n$-dimensional variety over $\mathbb{C}.$ Say $X, X'$ are two proper normal-crossings compactifications of $U$. Call a map $m: X'\to X$ a modification if it is an ...
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What is the meaning of universal family of Fulton Macpherson configuration space?
Fulton and Macpherson suggests the way to compactify the set of $n$-labelled distinct point on variety in their paper, "A Compactification of Configuration Spaces"
In this paper, the process ...
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Line bundles on toric varieties associated to Weyl chamber
I am interested in studying toric varieties associated to the fan of Weyl chambers. General information would be best but I am also interested in the specific case of the Weyl chamber of $\mathfrak{sl}...
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Borel-Weil-Bott theorem for wonderful compactification in characteristic p
Are there any known results for a Borel-Weil-Bott theorem for the wonderful compactifications over characteristic $p$ (i.e., theorems that classify the cohomologies of all line bundles on a wonderful ...
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toroidal compactifications of modulis spaces of ppav's
Are the modular toroidal compactifications of ppav's (second Voronoi) defined by Alexeev without self-intersections? i.e. are the irreducible component of the boundary divisor normal? If not, can one ...
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degenerate abelian surfaces
I am wondering if the family of degenerate abelian surfaces constructed by K. Hulek, C. Kahn and S.H. Weintraub in "Moduli spaces of Abelian Surfaces: Compactification, Degenarations, and Theta ...
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tangent bundle of the toric variety of the wonderful compactification.
Let G be a adjoint group over $k$,algebraically closed of caracteristic zero.
Let $\overline{G}$ be its wonderful compactification.
I denote by $\overline{T}$ the closure of the torus $T$ in $\...
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Implicit function theorem and compactification of algebraic curve
Let $C$ be a singular curve defined over a local field $K$.
Let $\tilde{C}$ be its smooth compactification(maybe this is not normalization).
Why $\tilde{C}(K)\neq \emptyset$ implies ${C}(K)\neq \...
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The Deligne-Mumford Compactification for Closed Surfaces
I am reading this note on super-Riemann surfaces. In the second paragraph of section 7.4.1 (page 87), there is a statement that I am trying to understand:
The compactified moduli space of closed ...
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Extending a model to a given compactification of its generic fiber
Let $R$ be a discrete valuation ring and $K$ its field of fraction. Let $X$ be a proper $K$-variety, $U$ a dense open and consider an $R$-model $\mathcal{U}$ of $U$.
Can we embed $\mathcal{U}$ in a ...
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Are degrees and ramification degrees preserved upon passing to the smooth compactification?
Let $\phi ：C_1\to C_2$ be morphism of projective singular curve. Let $\tilde{C}_1$ and $\tilde{C}_2$ be their smooth compactification.
Then $\phi$ extends to $\tilde{\phi} : \tilde{C}_1\to \tilde{C}...
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